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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02

People

William, Prince of Albania age 62
Isa II of Bahrain age 5
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 19
Khieu Samphan age 7
Abel Pacheco age 4
Giorgos Vasiliou age 7
León Febres-Cordero age 7
Hilla Limann age 4
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 39
Carmen Pereira age 2
József Antall age 6
Bjarni Benediktsson age 30
Jens Otto Krag age 24
Khamtai Siphandone age 14
Omar Karami age 4
Jan P. Syse age 8
Trygve Bratteli age 28
Odvar Nordli age 11
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 46
Chivu Stoica age 30
Tufuga Efi age 9 months
Wee Kim Wee age 23
Rahmon Nabiyev age 8
Ali Fethi Okyar age 58
Phạm Văn Đồng age 32
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 69
Carlos Arias Navarro age 30
Trường Chinh age 31
Garret FitzGerald age 12
Stafford Cripps age 49
John Paul Stevens age 18
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 13
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 35
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 8
Viačasław Kiebič age 2
Mark Eyskens age 5
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 21
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 8
Elisabeth Domitien age 13
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 17
Jaan Tõnisson age 70
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 23
Christos Sartzetakis age 9
Boniface Alexandre age 2
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 27
Seán T. O'Kelly age 56
Elias Hrawi age 12
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 11 months
Emilio Portes Gil age 48
Enrique Bolaños age 10
Murtala Muhammed age 1 month
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 14
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 6
Fulbert Youlou age 21
Thanom Kittikachorn age 27
Francisco Morales Bermúdez age 17
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 5
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 39
Kiyoura Keigo age 88
Okada Keisuke age 70
Senjūrō Hayashi age 62
Mitsumasa Yonai age 58
Guy Mollet age 32
Ferruccio Parri age 48
Liam Cosgrave age 18
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 19
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 28
Kurt Daluege age 41
Dong Biwu age 52
Raymond A. Spruance age 52
Tôn Đức Thắng age 50
James R. Schlesinger age 9
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 20
Héctor José Cámpora age 29
Juan Carlos Onganía age 24
Frank Forde age 48
Leopold Figl age 36
Gaston Eyskens age 33
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 40
Juan Bosch age 29
Gustavo Noboa age 1
Alexandros Papagos age 55
Arthur Chung age 20
Zoltán Tildy age 49
Michael Manley age 14
Pierre Werner age 24
Albert Zafy age 11
Anthony Mamo age 29
Amata Kabua age 10
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 13
Bernardino Machado age 87
Francisco de Sá Carneiro age 4
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 36
Muteesa II of Buganda age 14
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 24
Le Duc Anh age 18
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 27
Ibrahim Abboud age 38
Chen Yi age 37
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 49
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 72
Manfred Wörner age 4
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 24
Vladimir Ivashko age 6
Carlos Castillo Armas age 24
Christian Herter age 43
William P. Rogers age 25
Agustín Pedro Justo age 62
George Cadle Price age 19
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 22
André Kolingba age 2
Karl-August Fagerholm age 36
Leslie Manigat age 8
Döme Sztójay age 55
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 46
Lars Korvald age 22
John Lyng age 33
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 34
Américo Tomás age 44
Siaka Stevens age 33
Benjamin Sheares age 31
Li Tsung-jen age 49
Chuan Leekpai age 4 months
Yıldırım Akbulut age 3
Christian Rakovsky age 65
Jan Olszewski age 8
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 3
Ho Chong age 42
Creighton Abrams age 24
Charles Haughey age 13
Joseph Luns age 27
Fevzi Çakmak age 62
Nereu Ramos age 50
William J. Perry age 11
Wilhelm Groener age 71
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 38
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 70
John McEwen age 38
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 12
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 61
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 59
Alfonso López Michelsen age 25
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 32
Ahmed Abdallah age 19
Otto Strandman age 63
Ahti Karjalainen age 15
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 52
Martti Miettunen age 31
Mátyás Szűrös age 5
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 10
Adone Zoli age 51
H. C. Hansen age 32
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 8
Gustavs Zemgals age 67
Camille Chamoun age 38
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 49
Francisco León de la Barra age 75
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 61
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 60
Oscar Torp age 45
Per Borten age 25
Francisco Pinto Balsemão age 1
Rickard Sandler age 54
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 66
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 55
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 76
Shukri al-Quwatli age 47
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 5
A. N. R. Robinson age 11
Jorge Pacheco Areco age 18
Jaime Lusinchi age 14
Phan Văn Khải age 4
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 49
Giovanni Lajolo age 3
Giovanni Messe age 55
Zhang Xueliang age 37
José Linhares age 52
Geoffrey Howe age 11
Carlos Luz age 44
Maxwell D. Taylor age 37
William D. Leahy age 63
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 79
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 68
James Forrestal age 46
Warren E. Burger age 31
Haxhi Lleshi age 25
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 47
Julius Raab age 47
Achille Van Acker age 40
Julio César Turbay age 22
Laureano Gómez age 49
Gerardo Machado age 67
Spiros Cyprianou age 6
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 3
Jüri Uluots age 48
Kamisese Mara age 18
Mauno Pekkala age 48
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 7
Oswaldo López Arellano age 17
István Bethlen age 64